Jan Yip

“You've got to be a little bit greedy to be a good cook - I mean you've got to appreciate good food yourself - but even if I didn't like cooking very much I would enjoy cooking for Bunny.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“She was about to discover that lost things often reappear when they're no longer being looked for . . . and then, much closer than expected.”
― Abi Elphinstone, Winter Magic

“Jane Welsh Carlyle says in one of her letters, "One can never be too much alive to the consideration that one's every slightest action does not end when it has acted itself but propagates itself on and on, in one shape or another, through all time and away into eternity.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“Someday I mean to write a book of reminiscences; to delve into the cupboard of memory and sort out all the junk. There is so much to write about, so many little pictures grave and gay, so many ideas to think about and disentangle and arrange. Looking back is a fascinating pastime; looking back and wondering what one's life would have been if one had done this instead of that, if one had turned to the left at the crossroads instead of to the right, if one had stayed at home instead of going out or had gone out five minutes later.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves